Dang straight, he thought about opting out. Who wouldn’t? New dad. Baby at home. A potentially chaotic fall. Phillip Lindsay never quit on anything. Certainly not teammates. Certainly not on anything he could control. But COVID-19?
COVID-19 was … different.
“He thought a lot about it,” Troy Lindsay, father of the Broncos’ Pro Bowl tailback, told me recently. “With Phil, being an undrafted free agent … a lot of the ones that got to opt out, they’ve already gotten their money. And for him, it was more of one of those things where he’s saying, ‘Dad, I can’t … we need the money.